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The First Woman-Filmmaker (She Started In 1896)

Alice Guy-Blaché "should be heralded alongside early filmmakers like Georges Méliès and Auguste and Louis Lumière. She was one of the first filmmakers - some argue the first - to work with fictional narratives, beginning with her 1896 La Fée aux choux in which babies are born from cabbages with the help of a fairy."
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